Nagaon: A Badarpur-bound goods train derailed near Lower Haflong railway station on Sunday afternoon after some unidentified goons removed fishplates from the tracks. The incident comes on the third day of the 100-hour Dima Hasao district bandh called by the Indigenous Students Asociation. Police said the track inside a forest was damaged. The engine of the train derailed while the rakes remained on the track. This is the first untoward incident registered during the bandh which will end at 9pm on Tuesday.

Jorhat: Koliabor MP Dip Gogoi has urged railway minister Mamata Banerjee to make arrangements for all major long-distance trains, originating from Upper Assam, to pass through Jorhat and Golaghat towns. In a letter, Gogoi also urged the minister to change the timing of Intercity Jorhat-Guwahati train, which leaves at 4am from Jorhat, to 6am.

Jorhat: The indefinite economic blockade launched against Nagaland by the All Assam Gorkha Students' Union at Namtola in Sivasagar district on Saturday had been called off after talks between officials of Mon and Sivasagar districts and representatives of the Gorkha students' body at Sonari on Sunday.

Sichar: Fifteen students of a college at Nilampazar under Karimganj district suffered minor injuries on Saturday after they were allegedly caned by the CRPF, which was deployed there to remove picketers who had blockaded NH 44.